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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Alphabet Organizer
   Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
   Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
   Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
   Students become novice lexicographers as they explore recent new entries to the dictionary, learn the process of writing entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a new entry themselves.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan
   Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
   Students investigate the effects of word choice in Robert Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" to construct a more sophisticated understanding of speaker, subject, and tone.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Printout  |  Informational Sheet
   Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
   This printout offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and affixes that give students access to hundreds of key concepts across the content areas.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Crossword Puzzles
   This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
   Diamante Poems
   In this app, users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
   Diamante Poems
   This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 16
    Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
    Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.

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